Dragon User


Cassette 50

Author: Jason Orbaum
Publisher: Cascade
Machine: Dragon 32

 
Published in Dragon User #042

Fifty And Out...

When Cassette 50 came out many eons ago, I remember thinking to myself, "It can't be?! 50 games on one cassette? They must all be atrocious!" Through time though, I mellowed and gained a different view of humanity. I felt that maybe humanity was inherently good, maybe the cassette has some good stuff on it.

A few months later saw me buying the "fabulous" Cassette 50.

I rushed home, set up Digby (my computer) and loaded the first game, Mazeeater. It wasn't very good. In fact, it was written in BASIC and didn't really look very nice. In fact, in fact it was awful. But what did I care... I still had 49 games to go!

I loaded the second game, Galactic Attack. It wasn't really very good. In fact it was written in BASIC and didn't really look very nice. In fact, it was awful. But what did I care... I still had 48 games to go!

Three hours later I loaded the last game, Exchange. It wasn't really very good, etc.

I was not a happy person. Digby and myself had had a great time loading fifty totally useless games.

All the games were in BASIC, although some were not in Dragon BASIC - one of the games would not run as it was written in ZX81 BASIC! No attempt whatsoever was made at text formatting so the games looked as bad as they played!

May I congratulate Cascade Software on producing not one or two but fifty unplayable games.

Jason Orbaum